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...Chicago chapter of the National Organization for Women, says "about 80%" of the women who talk politics with her have expressed serious reservations about the Arkansas Governor. Though she attributes these to the character issue generally rather than allegations of adultery specifically, she goes on to talk about "a gut-level feeling of distaste for his life-style, which is perceived as morally not upstanding. Women tend to feel that one's moral character is a whole element, that if somebody is doing something morally unacceptable, it affects that person's judgment on other issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Questions Questions Questions | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Cows are contributing to global warming. To a measurable extent, they are. The symbiotic bacteria that dwell in every cow's gut enable grazers to break down the cellulose in grass. As a by-product, these bacteria produce considerable amounts of methane, which, like carbon dioxide, is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. The methane periodically gusts forth from grazing herds in the form of rumbling postprandial belches. But if cattle contribute to the global methane load, they are hardly alone. Swamps, termite mounds and rice paddies are all hosts to similar sorts of bacterial methane factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beef Against . . . Beef | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...regulate the chemical reactions that protect cells and convert food into energy and living tissue. Some vitamins are produced within the body. Vitamin D, for example, is manufactured in the skin during exposure to sunlight, and three other vitamins (K, biotin and pantothenic acid) are made inside the human gut by resident bacteria. But most vitamins must be ingested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scoop On Vitamins | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...gut feeling is that Paul Tsongas would be tougher for George Bush to defeat than Bill Clinton," said Hudnut, a Republican...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politicians Analyze Results | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

...style is more like the knife-in-the-gut meanness of Joe McCarthy than the deft ridicule used so successfully be George Wallace and Marvin Griffin...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Scared Down South | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

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